This week, a lot of folks shared solutions to specific issues, but I find that this is less useful to me than strategies to help others perform their own troubleshooting without me. I’ve worked in IT before, and what I learned was that, beyond a lot of teachers not being very tech savvy, a lot […]
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This weekend, I goofed around in TinkerCAD. When I was in university, UBC Rapid (the 3D printer engineering design team) ran a competition called HY3P (Hack Your 3D Printer) which I entered with a team, and that was probably the last the time I did much around 3D printing. Thinking about 3D modeling and printing
A caveat: I’m supposed to be writing about the computational thinking experiences I have observed at my school. Because I started my teaching career the same year as that pesky global pandemic, I haven’t really had much of an opportunity to observe others’ teaching of computational thinking and participation besides one two-week practicum during my
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For this assignment, I chose to complete some of the computational thinking lessons from Digital Technologies Hub (based on prior work by Google). These assignments were based around an online coding platform named Pencil Code. For this post, I will be looking at this platform, along with some other educational programming platforms used by teachers
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Yay, we’re talking about my teaching specialty this week! I can finally feel like my skills are valuable in the library learning commons! Computational thinking and robotics are somewhat strangely arranged in the BC curriculum as we move from grades 6-12. This post will discuss where the terms appear in the curriculum and then discuss
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Can I take a moment out of my busy day to say that I love the word “iterate”? Such a lovely word that just rolls off the tongue and says “fail forward” in a much nicer way. Likely due to how late in the week I submitted it, I did not receive a lot of
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Having looked at the floorplan for my school’s library and identified some needs of our users, here are some thoughts around redesigning the library. Sources BC Ministry of Education. (n.d.). Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies 8. Building Student Success – B.C. Curriculum. https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/curriculum/adst/8/core Brown, T. (Performer). (2008). Tales of Creativity and Play [Video file]. In
Source Overdrive. (n.d.). Fraser Valley Regional Library. Retrieved from https://fvrl.overdrive.com
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A few questions that came to mind while reading about the legal issues surrounding the sharing of student work. How does my home district monitor and enforce compliance with FOIPPA and sharing of student work? Given that most version control companies are based out of the United States (e.g., Github, Bitbucket), what options exist for
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This graphic, created in collaboration with Dee Singh and Angela Stevens, is targeted towards a middle/high school audience to educate students about some digital literacy topics. Sources Mihai Tanase. (2009, November 4). Cloud computing – How it all works. [YouTube Clip] YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTNgV0O_oTg November, A. (2012, March 25). How to read a web address? November